Andrea

Andrea Pelloni - aka Andrea. A happy retired Airline Manager, Andrea is a member of the the Tim Puckett's WORLPOSS Supernova Search Team (he is co-discoverer of 2005bp, 2225dz, 2005kd, 2006bq, 2006 gz and 2006nr), and uses his spare time to develop educational material on space exploration for schools. He lives in Rome, Italy.

Probably because my previous effort in helping Christophe has been super valued, Runar (rthorvald) asked me if I could help find the data needed to show the first (and only) orbital flight of the Russian Orbiter - Buran, the close relative of the US Shuttle. Obviously I accepted, and you can find the results in rthorvalds page.

Probably someone thinks this was to be an easier job, but strangely it’s not true.

Scarce documents and poor images compelled Christophe and myself to ask Celestians for help, and they fortunately replied positively.

Frank Gregorio very kindly took the time to go to the Smithsonian Museum to take close-ups of their Voyager model - enabling Christophe to add the last missing details to his model of the probe that visited and imaged all Solar System giants.